What is DMTFTD? First of all it stands for Don Moore's Terror From The Deep. It is a program that will patch your X-COM II saved game files to give you $320 million, will heal all of your wounded soldiers, will increase your soldiers attributes, will speed up (complete) the building of base facilities, and will place 1000 units of Zrbite at your 1st base, and more. How do I use it? Just place the program in your TFTD directory, and type DMTFTD. Why $320 million? Some editors I have seen allow you to have in excess of $2 billion. The problem with this is that if you try to sell anything, your money will exceed the allowed value, and you will actually end up with a negative balance. $320 million is plenty of money, and will allow you to buy anything you desire. Why would I want to heal my soldiers? More times than not, your wounded soldiers are your best soldiers. Some take over a month to heal. Just run this patch, and they will be available for reassignment to your landing ships. What happens when I increase my soldiers attributes? Your soldiers abilities will be increased. You will be able to walk farther, shoot harder, and take more damage. You may notice that each person can have slightly different attributes. It seems that Microprose is using some sort of random generator to figure out the attributes. Setting at the level I chose will keep you from increasing you attributes so much that certain functions will not be available (such as strength. If it gets too high, you can't throw anything. Seems like they would have fixed this from the original X-COM). What happens to my facilities when I speed up production? Instead of taking many days to finish, select this option and whatever facilities you are currently building will be completed. Why can I only give my 1st base some Zrbite? To be honest, I couldn't see wasting the code to do this when you can easily select Transfer and transfer what you need to other bases. I chose 1000 units due to the fact that this stuff does count against your stores, and if you have too many units, you will not be able to purchase anything until you either build a new store, or sell/transfer what you have. I have found 1000 units to be sufficient for game play. If you need more, re-run the patch. How about Repair All Craft? During a battle, your craft can become damaged. Using this option will repair all of your space craft. What does Armor do? This will give all of your soldier's the Magnetic Ion Armor. Helps protect them from the alien weapons. Plus they can float (fly). I have 10 saved games. Why can I only modify the 1st one? The unregistered version of DMTFTD will allow you to modify only the games saved in the first saved game position. Most users will find this satisfactory. What does RUN TFTD do? If you are a registered user, you will be able to launch TFTD from within the cheat. This will keep you from having to exit the cheat, and then run Terror.bat. If you are an unregistered user, choosing this will just cause the button to depress. Uh Oh. Here comes the sales pitch. What's the difference between registered and unregistered? Here are the differences: a) The registered version allows you to update any saved game, while the unregistered only allows you to update game 1; b) The registered version will have your name emblazoned for all to see; and c) The registered version allows you to run TFTD without exiting the cheat. Since most people will find that the unregistered version will suffice, it should be obvious that I am not out to become rich off of this. If you want to be able to patch the other games, etc, register. What if I don't want to register? No one will come knocking on your door at 3 am and ask to see your papers. If modifying game 1 is sufficient to your needs, then enjoy my program. Let's say I want to register. What do I need to do? Registration is only $7.00 (US). Upon receipt of your payment, I will send you the registration code for both X-COM and X-COM II cheats. How long will it take to get my registration code? If you pay by check, I will have to wait until the check clears (usually one week). Money orders, etc will be shipped the next day. Where do I send the payment? Don Moore P.O Box 575 Dahlgren, Va 22448-0575 What? No legal mumbo jumbo? Oh yeah, almost forgot. While this program has been tested on several machines, I have no way of knowing what your set-up is. There is always a slight chance you have a incompatible system. I cannot be held responsible to any problems caused by this program. I have written it in good faith, and do not forsee any problems occurring. If you want to be safe, save your game in two different slots, then run this program. If something bad happens, just reload your other saved game. This program may not be sold by anyone else. A small processing fee may be charged for disk duplication, etc, but no fee may be charged for this program. Shareware CD-ROM distributors are allowed and encouraged to use this program on their CD-ROMs. Special note for users who have already registered- I am currently in the process of contacting all of you with your registration codes. If I haven't sent yours, feel free to write and prod me a little. Other stuff: DMXCOM was written using Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.5. The menu routines and mouse routines were created using a program call MENUPRG (found as MENUPRG.ZIP on most BBS's). These routines are copyrighted by Carlos Diaz. XCOM, and Terror From The Deep are copyrighted by Microprose. Thanks guys, for another great game.